Obama, McCain end long-running feud

[former9thward]

Source: Chicago Tribune

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Republican Senator John McCain, bitter rivals from the 2008 election campaign whose feud festered for two years, completed a thaw Wednesday when they sat down for Oval Office talks.

Obama's defeat of McCain in the 2008 presidential election left sour feelings on both sides that lingered through Obama's first two years in office.

Obama invited McCain to the Oval Office as part of an effort to engage Republicans after they routed Democrats in last November's congressional elections.

Having a better relationship with Obama allows McCain to have the president's ear on his key priorities, while Obama can gain a clearer picture of what is happening on the Republican side by talking to McCain.


Read more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-obama-mccain-feud-story,0,1543300.story

[TwilightGardener]

1. Obama didn't "feud" with him. He won, he's the President--he's not still

slugging it out on the campaign trail or on the Senate floor. This sounds more like McCain is trying to stop being such a dick, and Obama is behaving graciously.

[Toon Me Out]

11. Gee, thaz swell, Reuters.

McCain's still a dickhead. These kinds of Reuters stories may serve McCain's public persona, but nothing more. Behind the scenes, he's
leaving a trail of slime as usual.









slug pic lic: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en

[TheDebbieDee]

2. The feud may be over, but McCain is still an

aircraft carrier-sinking, shit-for-brains that will say anything for a vote!

[Ian David]

3. Obama finally got off McCain's lawn? n/t

[Rhiannon12866]

6. +1

:rofl:

[Renew Deal]

4. They seemed to get along at first.

But McCain got angrier with time. Hopefully he's calmed down a bit.

[Drunken Irishman]

5. I don't ever remember Obama feuding with McCain.

I remember McCain acting like a jealous dickwad after the election, but Pres. Obama has been extremely generous in his kindness toward that fucking asshole.

[RandySF]

7. What did Obama have to give up?

[Angry Dragon]

8. A worthless news article

Nothing against the poster but mccain will never change.
He is just a bitter old man that feels Obama kept him from something that he felt was owed him.

[Mira]

17. McCain is a rotating change machine. He is unpredictable

mean - and self serving.

[bluestateguy]

9. Obama won McCain lost. Any reconciliation is on McCain to make

He has acted like a bitter sore loser for two years now.

Contrast that with Al Gore who actually didn't lose, but kept his mouth shut after the Supreme Court decided that Bush won. Or John Kerry or Bob Dole or yes, even George H.W. Bush.

[TlalocW]

10. God, we either get conservative-biased news...

or news that attempts to make both sides look equally bad when the facts don't back it up.

Obama never feuded with McCain. He bore the brunt of McCain's acting like a dick and moved past it to attempt to get things done. He never retaliated. And I don't believe McCain has changed. He's always been a goddamned piece of shit long before he ran for president - he just had the ability to charm the press. Now that he's entering the twilight of his political career without getting the big prize (the presidency), he's just showing his true self.

TlalocW

[pasto76]

12. wow cause I want McCains opinions considered in anything

[alp227]

13. I recall Obama and McCain worked together on some legislation

"Obama, McCain Forged Fleeting Alliance" (Washington Post, 3/31/2008): "A year into his tenure on Capitol Hill, Barack Obama (D-Ill.) approached John McCain on the Senate floor to propose the two work together on a lobbying and ethics reform bill. The four-term Arizona Republican, 25 years Obama's senior, quickly saw a willing apprentice to help shake up the way business was done on Capitol Hill. <...> Instead, what began as a promising collaboration between two men bent on burnishing their reformist credentials collapsed after barely a week. The McCain-Obama relationship came undone amid charges and countercharges, all aired publicly two years ago in an exchange of stark and angry letters."

"Climate Bill Sets Stage for Debate" (Associated Press, 1/11/2007): "WASHINGTON -- Potential presidential rivals John McCain and Barack Obama are joining with newly independent Sen. Joe Lieberman on a plan they say would reduce annual global-warming gases by two-thirds by mid-century."

[Jefferson23]

14. I don't recall Obama feuding with McCain. I do recall McCain making an ass out of himself

at the health care summit.


Senator John McCain, who lost to Obama in the 2008 election, used his time to detail “unsavory” deals in the Democratic legislation.

“We’re not campaigning anymore,” Obama told McCain, an Arizona Republican, when he finished. “The election’s over.”

McCain replied, “I’m reminded of that every day.”



http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-02-25/obama-tells-mccain-election-s-over-as-he-presses-health-plan.html

[Hollywood Hills]

15. It's a one-way feud.

All in McCain's angry, jealous head. Obama=gracious grown-up. McCain=spoiled child.

[politicasista]

16. Doesn't matter. People will always praise

President Obama and even prop up McCain to bash good liberal Democrats.

[truthisfreedom]

18. McCain has proved himself to be terribly unpredictable and, generally, a loose cannon.

Obama will do well to use this moment to dismiss him completely. And marginalize him.

[lonestarnot]

19. Oh so now we're in an ass kissing contest.

:puke:

[panzerfaust]

20. McCain to be Obama's running mate in 2012

[Botany]

21. What a bull crap story Obama has gone out of his way to be nice to McCain

n/t